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Transforming Lives by Increasing the Accessibility, Usability and Sustainability of Music for All

Creating inclusive and happy spaces for children through music.

Enabling access to quality music education for every child.

Broadening the narrative around music beyond entertainment

Upskilling musicians from low income communities for them to have a sustainable career in music.

Music Bus: India’s first mobile recording studio, learning space and performance stage.

Spreading all embracing and peaceful message of Kabir Das and Mahatma Gandhi through Original songs

Our Mission

To enable access to music education in government and low-income schools and communities for 1 million children by 2026. We aim to enable each child to realise their full potential and to give a voice to their dreams

Our Vision

To spark transformation, creativity and social change within marginalised communities nationwide via high-quality music education and leadership mentoring.

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What Do We Do

Leveraging Music in creative ways to impact outcomes in the following 3 domains

Education

Our PANKH Program is aimed at enhancing social and emotional learning (SEL) skills of children in government and low-income schools.

Gender

Our WeBhor Program is aimed at creating awareness around women’s rights, gender issues, equality and sexual health challenges.

Livelihood

Our SEEKho Program is aimed at training and up-skilling budding musicians for flourishing careers in the music industry and allied professions.

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MEET THE MYSTIC MAKER

Ravi Gulati, Founder of Manzil. (an alumnus of IIM-A)

Ravi Gulati has given his life to transforming the education system. A passionate social activist for educational and environmental reform, he gave up a comfortable salary in Canada to bring serious change to his home nation of India.

In 1996, together with his mother, Mrs. Indira Gulati, and Dr. Geeta Chopra, Ravi founded a preschool in Kotla integrating slow learners into the education system. 

A year later he simply opened the doors of his home in Khan Market to children of maids, drivers and street-workers, thus creating our parent NGO, ‘Manzil’ (a classical Persian word meaning ‘direction’, ‘journey’ or ‘destination’)

Ravi has thus far helped 250+ underprivileged children through Manzil. 6 of those young people decided to get together and form a daughter NGO to bring that same powerful transformation to India’s youth via music education.

Music as a tool

For Social Change

” We believe that Music aids critical life skills and socio emotional development. We have seen students becoming leaders, improving their grade rates and becoming more sensitized to life skills. “

– Ravi Gulati

How We Do it?

 

Our Driving Four-S

Satsang

Satsang is a group singing.We create a space where everyone can sing meaningful songs in a group. This helps us increase the accessibility of music.

Samvaad

Samvaad is the creative dialogue.The satsangs are curated according to the topic of samvaad.This helps us increase the usability of the music we do

Sangeet

Based on the Samvaad, the participants (children) Write their own song based on the theme. This helps us increase the sustainability of music for all.

Swadhyay

Swadhyay means Reflection (Reflective Action).The entire process helps the child build a happy, safe and inclusive space. This pillar helps to reflect on that..

Our Partners and Supporters

A peek into our Learning Through Music classrooms

Through our flagship program – Learning Through Music, we create happy and inclusive spaces for children to express themselves, learn and grow creatively through music. Here is a short video about the impact of Learning Through Music.

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Testimonials

Due to promoting learning via music our children also found rhythm and they felt like it was work, play and pleasure all together. Whatever questions they had in their mind which their parents couldn’t answer, we as teacher couldn’t answer, answer they couldn’t get from anyone in the classroom, even science teacher couldn’t give them convincing answer, they got these answers through WeBhor sessions. I would endorse these sessions and I am really happy that these sessions were conducted in our school.

– Jyotsna Davar: Teacher, PGD Commerce, R.P.V.V. INA

I didn’t realize that I was learning about Menstrual Hygiene. I really love that pregnancy song that you did.

– Student, RPVV, INA

Music Binds, Music creates communities, Music unites and I have discovered from a bunch of passionate musicians that it has the power to ignite lives as well, specially in the low income communities. This group of six all from lower income group families themselves have demonstrated that music binds.. they have been together both as a band and first and an NGO they created later called Manzil Mystics for nearly a decade, three young men & three young women of different communities, united by their love for music.

– Ujwal Thakar (Co-founder & Partner at UIA and Ex-CEO Give India & Pratham)

Manzil Mystics is an enterprising group of people who are passionate about music and kids development via music. Music is an integral part of any child’s development. Manzil Mystics has proved this time and time again.

– Devang Bhandari (Global COO – ESG Advisory KPMG)

The best way to talk about Gender equality, I have never heard such powerful yet simple lyrics!

– Devender Arora (Anjan TV)

Get In Touch

Address: 2028/10, South Extension I, Kotla Mubarakpur, Near, New Delhi, Delhi 110003

Telephone: 011-41006403

Email: info@manzilmystics.org

Working Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am – 6pm

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